You Were Never Mine

High - Chapter 05

Parker

I craved Elle. I craved every single part of her after that evening. The way we kissed, how hot she felt against my body. How our lips connected and moved together. I was in awe of everything about her. 

"Bro, are you hearing this shit?" 

I turn and look at Demetri as he stares at Ben across from him. I nod my head upwards, "yeah, I heard him." 

"You weren't even listening; you've been spaced out for the past hour," Ben chuckles, shaking his head. 

I shoot Ben a glare, "I heard everything you said. You've been going on and on about some drug you took last night. You were so high out of your mind you started barking at Demetri and then called Ginger and cried for an hour." 

"I DID NOT CRY," Ben exclaims, looking at me with anger in his eyes. "I don't cry." 

I let out a laugh and look at Demetri then back at Ben. "Whatever you say, Benny boy." 

"How are you and Elle?" Demetri turns his head to look at me, cocking it sideways. 

"We're fine," I roll my eyes at him and rub the palms of my hands against my jeans. "You guys act like we're a couple or something. I haven't even seen her in a few days. She's been caught up with school work and Julia." 

Ben lets out a deep breath, "Julia. Man, she's the kind of chick I'd like to get my hands on. She's so beautiful. You think she'd be into me?" 

"I don't know man, I don't know her enough," I reach into my pocket and take out a pack of smokes, placing one between my lips and lighting it up. "Why don't you try to figure that out on your own? I thought you were still caught up on Ginger. Especially after last night." 

Demetri and I share a laugh as we look at Ben's face turn red. "Oh, shut up. I'm not into Ginger anymore. I don't know what the hell Hanson gave me, but whatever it was had me all sorts of out of my mind. It was some pretty heavy shit." 

Hanson Miller. He was our supplier for drugs and he provided us with the best discounts, but he couldn't always be trusted. I always had this uneasy feeling around him and when he provided us with different drugs without giving us the full description of it, it freaked me out. I never really minded him doing that until I found Ben passed out face down on the carpet of Demetri's basement one night. I thought he overdosed, but he was in such a high state that he blacked out. 

"I don't know why you still get your shit from Hanson. At least ask him what the hell he's giving you," I shake my head, taking a long drag from the cigarette. "Do you not remember the night I found you in the basement?" 

Ben rolled his eyes, "Parker, that was a one-time thing. I'm a grown man, I'm fine." 

"Yeah, whatever man." I stand up from the couch and finish the cigarette, putting it out in the ash tray on the coffee table. "I'm going to go see what Elle is doing. You two are boring as fuck." 

Demetri laughs while he rolls a blunt and looks up at me, "but we aren't a couple. Tsk tsk, Parker boy." He finishes rolling the blunt and takes a lighter to it, letting the flame close the paper. "Wanna do the honors?" He holds it out to me. 

I shrug my shoulders and drop down on the couch next to him, "fuck it, why not." 

I take the blunt from his hand and light it, taking a hit off of it and closing my eyes. 

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I stepped out of the shower and wrapped the towel around my waist. Licking my lips, I look at myself in the mirror after cleaning the steam off of it. I look at my body in the mirror and flex while doing so. Thinking about Elle, I grab my phone and take a sultry mirror pic, sending it to her.